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			<title>IFA Hotels reports $108m profit for fiscal year end</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait-based leisure company says success down to international projects.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts ups stake in Raimon Land</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait-based operator deepens strategic partnership with Thai-based real estate firm.]]></description>
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			<title>Uponor shines at Golden Mile</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Uponor's multi-layer composite pipe (MLCP) system was used for the Golden Mile in Palm Jumeirah, a project recently handed over by joint-venture partners Nakheel and IFA Hotels & Resorts.]]></description>
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			<title>Three months free rent draws tenants to Palm apartments </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One bedroom apartment on Golden Mile, AED108,000, plus three free months.]]></description>
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			<title>Two for Yotel in Abu Dhabi</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi National Hotels has inked a memorandum of understanding with Yotel Investments to develop two 'pod hotels' in the UAE capital.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA HR in stake swap deal with Kingdom</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait-based firm transferred minority interests in three properties with Saudi's KHI.]]></description>
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			<title>New Yotel in Amsterdam</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yotel, a hotel brand in which IFA Hotels & Resorts (IFA HR) is the majority investor, recently opened its third hotel at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wessel Witthuhn of IFA discusses the company's on-going hospitality investment plans in the region.]]></description>
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			<title>Voyage into Africa for IFA</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IFA president Africa and Indian Ocean Wessel Witthuhn talks about the company's ongoing projects and operating partners — and where he believes will be the future development hot spots.]]></description>
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			<title>The secret of IFA’s success revealed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Aspiring developers should listen up as the secret of Kuwait-based development giant IFA's success has been revealed: mixed-use projects.]]></description>
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			<title>Profit sharing plan for IFA</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  IFA Hotels and Resorts vice president vacation ownership Piaras Moriarty outlines the company's strategy and explains its policy of delivering projects with a range of asset classes for sale.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Framework for success</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patrick Smith, vice president, asset management, IFA Hotels and Resorts, outlines the company's investment strategy and shares future expansion plans.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA's African safari</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Kuwaiti firm has ploughed billions of dollars into the Palm, now it is eyeing the vast plains of Africa.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA eyes mixed-use resort in Brazil</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Kuwaiti hospitality group looking at several locations, in talks with major landowner.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA and Nakheel sign second joint venture agreement</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IFA Hotels and Resorts (IFA HR) and UAE-based property development company Nakheel announced their second joint venture partnership, with the acquisition of two plots of land adjacent to the Kingdom of Sheba resort on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA to launch $1bn Palm resort</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait hotel developer plans extension to Kingdom of Sheba resort on crescent of manmade island.]]></description>
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			<title>Build a framework for success</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IFA Hotels and Resorts vice president asset management Patrick Smith explains the company's investment strategy of diversification to maximise returns, and discusses future expansion plans.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Ground-breaking residences underway</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IFA Hotels & Resorts (IFA HR) has officially broken ground on its Balqis Residence project in the Kingdom of Sheba resort, located on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. ]]></description>
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			<title>Plans for The Palm</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Palm Jumeirah's biggest investor talks about the ambitious developments for the man-made island.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA heads into the wild </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hotel and resort company stakes 50% in joint venture to acquire South African golf and safari resort.  ]]></description>
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			<title>IFA HR to develop $450mn Seychelles resort</title>
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			<description><![CDATA['Zilwa' project will be an equal partnership with Seychelles-based Indian Ocean Resorts.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai's Palm fire: short circuit blamed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  MEP contractor believes spark could have landed on materials in storage area.]]></description>
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			<title>IFA kicks off Palm resort with tenders up for grabs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bids for the US $1 billion Kingdom of Sheba development will be invited in the next two months]]></description>
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